Dished Up By 3D Printers, a New Kind of Fish To Fry (reuters.com) 31
Forget your hook, line and sinker. An Israeli foodtech company says it has 3D printed the first ever ready-to-cook fish fillet using animal cells cultivated and grown in a laboratory. From a report: Lab-grown beef and chicken have drawn attention as a way to sidestep the environmental toll of farming and tackle concerns over animal welfare, but few companies have forayed into seafood. Israel's Steakholder Foods has now partnered with Singapore-based Umami Meats to make fish fillets without the need to stalk dwindling fish populations. Umami Meats extracts cells - for now from grouper - and grows them into muscle and fat. Steakholder Foods then adds them to a 'bio-ink' suited for special 3D printers. The outcome: a narrow fillet that mimics the properties of sea-caught fish.
Umami hopes to bring its first products to market next year, starting in Singapore and then, pending regulation, countries like the United States and Japan. Cell cultivation alone is still too expensive to match the cost of traditional seafood, so for now the fish cells are diluted with plant-based ingredients in the bio-ink. "As time goes by, the complexity and level of these products will be higher, and the prices linked to producing them will decrease," said Arik Kaufman, the chief executive of Steakholder Foods.
Umami hopes to bring its first products to market next year, starting in Singapore and then, pending regulation, countries like the United States and Japan. Cell cultivation alone is still too expensive to match the cost of traditional seafood, so for now the fish cells are diluted with plant-based ingredients in the bio-ink. "As time goes by, the complexity and level of these products will be higher, and the prices linked to producing them will decrease," said Arik Kaufman, the chief executive of Steakholder Foods.
Economical option (Score:2)
Re:Economical option (Score:5, Funny)
The thought of that makes me eel. However, I'd do that just for the halibut.
Re:Economical option (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, good cod.
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All T'rout the industry we've Bass ically Herring about 3D printers Floundering and breaking down sold by unscrupulous Sharks and here comes another product Perched on success but is it just another red Herring?
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Everybody will be printing with flounder soon.
IDK, that seems a little fishy.
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I'll take the REAL thing....
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No, the printer will refuse to operate with flounder refilling and false claim cartridge is empty.
pink slime:hotdog::fish paste:surimi (Score:2)
Octodog? With 3D printing we can create eldritch^W Man-made horrors beyond your comprehension! [quoteinvestigator.com]
Also some of the squinkyer parts of the movie Prometheus. But this time as a sex toy / happy meal.
Re: Economical option (Score:2)
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Ok, I actually could not stop laughing at that one.
Is this greener? (Score:1)
This might be off-topic, but I was under the impression that the onus for 3D-printed meat, and most of the newer meat substitutes like Beyond Meat, (aside from appeasing vegans) was that it could be more environmentally friendly than raising a cow for a couple of years. Does this argument really apply to aquaculture? Of course, it probably does for predatory fish like tuna, but I was under the impression that properly-managed aquaculture, esp. for fish/shellfish that are low on the food chain like catfish,
Nope (Score:2)
Not letting HP near my food. This all sounds quite fishy to me.
frankenfood (Score:2)
How is clamoring for this frankenfood?
The $64,000 question (Score:3)
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Off topic, but,
"Why are so many Christians God fearing instead of God loving?"
They read the Old Testament.
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Here is another answer. It's due to mistranslation of the original Hebrew for "awe or reverence for God" to "fear of God".
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Nice drift off-topic. Also that describes pretty much everyone in some fashion.
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How many people alive today know the etymology of "$64,000 question"?
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- why 'print' the product ? - (Score:3)
"diluted with plant-based ingredients in the bio-ink"
I might be interested in a lab grown meat but not with additives intended only for ink-jet type printing. Sounds like a gimmick from a deranged marketing department. A hamburger type patty should suffice that doesn't require 'printing'. Yes, it would be nice to reproduce the muscle patterns of real fish, but a printer will never do that. With luck, future lab grown muscle will be able to emulate real muscle fibers.
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Why 'print' the product
It's so that HP can charge you a monthly subscription fee if you want to continue eating
You are eating cancer (Score:1)
Ask any cellular biologist - what happens when you force a cell to divide millions of times with no immune system to regulate mutated cells?
The answer is cancer.
To ensure quality, these companies would have to genetically test every single small batch of tissue served to consumers. Who here is willing pay $500 for an ounce of lab grown meat?
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Re: You are eating cancer (Score:2)